ECONOMICS ECON 058H.001 | Researching the Tools for Success in College He enjoys travel, photography, baking, and hanging out with his cats. As a historian who has taught French studies, art history, and general humanities courses, he is committed to discussion and debate across traditional disciplinary boundaries. A specialist in modern art and French cultural history, he has written and edited several books on art museums, the commemoration of World War I in France, and the fascination with so-called primitive cultures in France after World War II he is now working on the history of archaeology. He came to UNC in 2008, having taught previously at Rice University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he was also Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies. We also look at the ways works of art themselves become the trophies or stakes of conflict.ĭaniel Sherman received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his Ph.D. In most weeks, we focus on a single or small groups of works, mostly from Europe and the U.S., in a variety of media: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and graphic arts, taking the opportunity to study them in depth while also gaining exposure to a range of interpretive methods and the richness of the historical context. We will consider the tensions between glorifying war and violence and memorializing their victims, between political justification and moral outrage, between political programs (many of the works being commissioned to legitimate a particular view of war) and the malleability of meaning.
This course explores the complex relationship between art, war, and conflict.
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